A growing category of products branded with the imagery of Charley Harper includes puzzle games, playing cards, memory challenges and other wonderful stimulating games. What’s best about each one is the opportunity to have fun while enjoying the art of Charley Harper. Not only are these Charley Harper games fun, fun, fun, they also make great gifts!

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Budding birders, can you identify each winged creature in Charley Harper’s avian artworks? Harper (1922–2007) became famous for depicting birds and other wildlife using only simple shapes, capturing the character of each critter by its easily recognized features. These Harper flash cards will help you learn the names of fifty feathered friends, whom you might see at the park, beside a stream, or outside your window.

From beagles and bobcats to tigers and toucans—animal-loving youngsters can find their favorites and sharpen their memory skills by matching 36 images by artist Charley Harper (American, 1922–2007). Kids of all ages can enjoy playing the game and learning from the accompanying booklet about familiar and exotic creatures.
Sample booklet text: Black bears usually live in forests and can climb trees. They’re not always black, though; they can be brown, blue-gray, cinnamon, blond, or even white. Bears stuff themselves with plenty of fruit, nuts, roots, insects, and vegetation during the summer and fall, then spend the winter hibernating in their dens.
Caterpillars change into butterflies through a process known as metamorphosis. Depending on their species, some butterflies may grow to nearly 12 inches in diameter. Butterflies feed on nectar, sap, and juice from fruit. They can be found on every continent except Antarctica.
Caution WARNING: Choking hazard—small parts. Not suitable for children under 3 years.

A lifelong conservationist, Harper found his passion in creating fresh and witty paintings of wildlife in his own minimal realist style. Using geometric shapes, patterns, and vivid colors, he brought out the personality of each creature he painted.
Puzzle size: 32 x 16 in.
Box size: 10 x 13 x 1⅞ in

As an avid naturalist, Charley Harper's life's work was painting the insects, plants, birds, and animals he loved. Early on, his ultrarealistic works gave way to familiar scenes based on bold geometric shapes, crisp lines, and jolts of unmodulated color. Harper's posters for conservation organizations have become some of his most enjoyed works—skillful and playful menageries of local wildlife. Populated by ferns and fawns, salamanders and scarlet tanagers, Birducopia presents a multitude of creatures from Ohio's Penitentiary Glen.
1,000 interlocking pieces.
Puzzle size: 16 x 32 in.
Box size: 10 x 13 x 1 ⅞ in.

Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, California, 2002
From the Appalachian foothills of his youth to the mountains of the American West, explored while on a traveling scholarship in 1947, Charley Harper (American, 1922–2007) gathered impressions of nature that would forever inform his artwork. He said, “I came to grips with my new attitude toward form—SIMPLIFY. I couldn’t get a Rocky Mountain on a piece of paper without simplifying it. I walked away from a scene before putting brush to paper, eliminated perspective and shading, and recorded only what I felt to be its essence. It was the most satisfying painting I had ever done. I had discovered life after realism.”
1,000 interlocking pieces.
Puzzle size: 16 x 32 in.
Box size: 10 x 13 x 1 ⅞ in.

Canyon Country is one of ten posters Harper was commissioned to create for the US National Park Service. Here he depicted public lands in southern Utah, northern Arizona, eastern Nevada, and western Colorado. His landscape teems with the wildlife that thrives in the desert Southwest’s dramatic terrain.
Puzzle size: 20 x 25 in.
Box size: 10 x 13 x 1⅞ in.

Cat and House by Edie Harper (American, 1922–2010).
Her dollhouse is in perfect order,
with beautiful paint and decor.
The bedroom is cheery and tidy;
the playroom has toys galore.
The kitchen is warm and inviting,
but what's going on next door?
Appearing gigantic, her catnapping pet
has occupied the ground floor!
This playful image is the work of accomplished painter, photographer, jewelry maker, sculptor, and silkscreen printmaker Edie Harper (American, 1922–2010). Married to renowned artist Charley Harper for sixty-three years, she was best known for her modernist illustrations of childhood memories and biblical stories.
Caution (WARNING: Choking hazard—small parts. Not suitable for children under 3 years.) This item is CPSIA compliant: CPSIA certification form.

A lifelong conservationist, Harper ultimately found his passion in creating fresh and witty paintings of wildlife in his own minimal realist style. He went on to delight legions of art and animal lovers the world over with his posters for the National Park Service, including Isle Royale National Park, Michigan. The park, established in 1940, spans a large wilderness island and more than 450 smaller islands in Lake Superior. It’s home to wolves, moose, and a wide variety of birds, a few of which Harper has perched amid the birches in this poster. The artworks for his park posters—massive, requiring a year each to paint—showcase Harper’s skill in depicting entire ecosystems by using simple shapes and patterns, and vivid colors.
Thoughtfully conceived and engagingly intricate, our interlocking jigsaw puzzles combine superb color reproduction, stunning and unusual images, and sturdy construction to delight generations of novice and veteran puzzleworkers.
1,000 interlocking pieces.
Puzzle size: 20 x 29 in.
Box size: 10 x 13 x 1⅞ in.

These card patterns are adapted from The Bug That Bugs Nobody and Ladybug Sampler by Charley Harper (American, 1922–2007), who created delightfully clever illustrations of the natural world.
Two shrinkwrapped decks of poker-size playing cards in a sturdy reusable box. Deck includes 52 playing cards and 2 jokers.
Box size: 5 1/2 x 3 7/8 x 1 in.

Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center by Charley Harper (American, 1922–2007)
A lifelong artist and conservationist, Charley Harper expressed his deep appreciation of nature through his design, forming the groundbreaking “minimal realism” that would become his artistic hallmark. He distilled the natural world into vivid, often humorous illustrations garnering him national renown. The featured image comes from a 1991 poster for the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes in Cleveland, Ohio, created in celebration of the area’s wildlife and the center’s many years of “serendipity in the suburbs.”
Thoughtfully conceived and engagingly intricate, our 500-piece interlocking jigsaw puzzles combine superb color reproduction, stunning and unusual images, and sturdy construction to delight generations of novice and veteran puzzleworkers. Puzzle size: 18 x 27 in.
Caution (WARNING: Choking hazard—small parts. Not suitable for children under 3 years.)